Exhibition 19^th March to 16^th April 2006

Copyright  © 2004 Pollock Gallery

Stephen Armstrong

“Survey Exhibition 1986 - 2006”

A selection of the catalogue follows:

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Roundabout 1999 Oil on canvas 112 x 183 cm SOLD
Traffic Lights 1996 - 2006 Oil on board 203 x 87 cm
Hands 2006 Oil on canvas 91 x 121 cm SOLD
Stopping all Stations 2005 Oil on canvas 122 x 168 cm SOLD
The GPO 1993 Oil on canvas 122 x 152 cm SOLD
Large Footpath 1996 Oil on canvas 183 x 122 cm
The Guardians 1989 - 1999 Oil on canvas 152 x 111 cm
St Pauls & Seagulls 1983 - 1989 Oil on canvas 137 x 122 cm
Large Fitzroy View 1998 Oil on canvas 142 x 112 cm SOLD
China Town 1990 Oil on canvas 106 x 122 cm
Chinatown at Night 1988 Oil on canvas 130 x 91 cm
Heads 2006 Oil on canvas 102 x 122 cm
Abandoned Shops 2001 Oil on canvas Board 61 x 76 cm
About to Rain 2001 Oil on canvas Board 61 x 76 cm
Stormy Sky 2001 Oil on canvas Board 61 x 76 cm
Institutional Landscape 1999 Oil on vanvas 122 x 152 cm SOLD
Crossing the Street 1995 Oil on canvas 54 x 34 cm SOLD
Footpath 1996 Oil on canvas 76 x 56 cm
The Walk Bridge 1991 Oil on board 61 x 92 cm
Going Home 2003 - 2005 Oil on canvas 100 x 150 cm
Lines & Poles 1988 Oil on canvas 71 x 56 cm
News Stand 1997 Oil on canvas 108 x 123 cm SOLD
Orr Street,Grey Day 1998 Oil on canvas 41 x 61 cm
Peakhour 2006 Oil on canvas 50 x 60 cm
Phone Booths 2000 Oil on canvas 23 x 30.5 cm SOLD
Posters 1999 Oil on canvas 136 x 101 cm SOLD
School Girls Excursion 1987 Oil on canvas 137 x 102 cm
Shop Scene 1994 Oil on canvas 84 x 70 cm
Sitting on the Job 1999 Oil on canvas 51 x 46 cm SOLD
South Yarra Station 1994 Oil on canvas 41 x 56 cm SOLD
Street Lines #2 1997 Oil on canvas 83.5 x 130 cm
Train Station 1989 Oil on Canvas 61 x 66 cm SOLD
Tram Tracks 1996 Oil on Canvas 152 x 111 cm SOLD
Travellers 2006 Oil on Canvas 50 x 60 cm
Service Station 1998 Oil on Canvas 41 x 56 cm
Small Fitzroy View 1998 Oil on Canvas 40 x 50 cm SOLD
Weekend Travellers 2006 Oil on Canvas 56 x 45 cm
Yellow Flowers 2006 Oil on Canvas 40 x 50 cm
Waiting for the Train 1997 Oil on Canvas 38 x 35 cm
Train Travellers 2. 2000 Oil on Canvas board 24 x 34 cm SOLD
A.T.M. 1998 Oil on Canvas 23 x 20 cm SOLD
On the Train 2000 Oil on Canvas board 22 x 12 cm SOLD
Coming into Station 2006 Oil on Canvas 20 x 22 cm SOLD
Gargoyle 2006 Oil on Canvas 20 x 22 cm SOLD

Stephen Armstrong celebrates over 20 years of painting!

Stephen Armstrong’s Survey Exhibition features selected works, painted between 1986 and 2006.

From his early years as one of the popular Roar Gallery artists, Stephen Armstrong had a preference for painting the urban sights that constantly surrounded him. Some of his earliest paintings feature surprisingly powerful images of subjects as basically ‘everyday’ as tram tracks, close up of a footpath, a phone booth, a newsstand or a mundane shop front.

Over the years, his work evolved to include more figures in the urban scapes, particularly his striking ‘train travellers’ which feature people in trains with the graffitied urban landscape captured through windows.

Stephen’s technique of using paint with an absolute air of confidence and an occasional apparent disregard for perspective (deliberate of course) made him a popular, collectable figure throughout the art world in Melbourne. Artists especially admire Stephen’s technique as they often refer to him as the painter’s painter (because he appears to be totally unafraid of applying paint to the canvas).

From the mid seventies, Stephen studied arts at RMIT, progressing from BA Fine Arts, Graduate Dip. Fine Arts, to Masters of Fine Art (Research, RMIT), 1996. In between he obtained a Graduate Diploma of Education from the Uni. of Melbourne. Stephen Armstrong has a solid exhibition and teaching history. His work is well represented in major institutional, corporate and private collections.

The exhibition, opened by Ronald Millar, painter and critic, at Pollock Gallery in Richmond on Wednesday 29^th March and will be on view until April 16.